
Every bad habit he has, he'll do it the same or more, so don't marry him unless you accept that you're marrying the bad behavior, too.” he will continue to do that, and he'll do it even more. Look at him and think of every bad habit he has, because whatever he does. She then pointed dramatically to my future husband and said in a very loud voice, “You see him? You see this man you want to marry? Well, look at him now, honey. When we gathered in the living room late in the evening to make a toast to our future marriage, one of the Brooklyn relatives came over and grabbed me by the shoulders and turned me to face everyone in the room. Recently, they have found new life among younger fans, including extremely-online cook Alison Roman the vinaigrette was famously Instagramed by Olivia Wilde.The night before I got married, my future in-laws hosted a rehearsal dinner for our wedding party and our out-of-town guests. Fifteen recipes are salted throughout the novel, three alone for potatoes. The novel became a gastronomic touchstone. The husband is “capable of having sex with a venetian blind.” His paramour is filleted as “a fairly tall person with a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs, never mind her feet, which are sort of splayed.” Ephron named her Thelma. It’s a monologue, a diatribe, a roman à clef deployed with heat-seeking barbs. To some readers, “Heartburn” is barely a novel. “You haven’t lived till you’ve squeezed my Washington Post” is deployed as a lecherous come-on by the president’s assistant. References to The Post, including the Style section, are peppered throughout. “Heartburn” is a Washington novel and a Washington Post novel: It’s based on Ephron’s explosive breakup with legendary Post Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, who had an affair with the wife of the British ambassador when Ephron was many months pregnant with her and Bernstein’s second child.
